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Faint memories of the true mission leads to lots of discussion in BooMan’s fp story – Greenwald is Controversial, So What? Osama Bin Laden had been very active during the Clinton years 1992-2000 and includes his Declaration of War on the United States in 1996. Somehow, the US President and Congress were pre-occupied with other matters of state and failed to understand the upcoming threat of militant Islam throughout the Middle-East and across South-East Asia: Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. The term “blowback” was used in this first article, similar repercussion has been forecast by the US invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003.
NEW YORK (MSNBC) Aug. 24, 1998 — At the CIA, it happens often enough to have a code name: Blowback. Simply defined, this is the term describing an agent, an operative or an operation that has turned on its creators. Osama bin Laden, our new public enemy Number 1, is the personification of blowback. And the fact that he is viewed as a hero by millions in the Islamic world proves again the old adage: Reap what you sow.
But just as surely, there are times when the United States, faced with such moral dilemmas, should have resisted the temptation to act. Arming a multi-national coalition of Islamic extremists in Afghanistan during the 1980s – well after the destruction of the Marine barracks in Beirut or the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 – was one of those times.
BIN LADEN’S BEGINNINGS
As anyone who has bothered to read this far certainly knows by now, bin Laden is the heir to Saudi construction fortune who, at least since the early 1990s, has used that money to finance countless attacks on U.S. interests and those of its Arab allies around the world.
As his unclassified CIA biography states, bin Laden left Saudi Arabia to fight the Soviet army in Afghanistan after Moscow’s invasion in 1979. By 1984, he was running a front organization known as Maktab al-Khidamar – the MAK – which funneled money, arms and fighters from the outside world into the Afghan war.
What the CIA bio conveniently fails to specify (in its unclassified form, at least) is that the MAK was nurtured by Pakistan’s state security services, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, the CIA’s primary conduit for conducting the covert war against Moscow’s occupation.
Osama Bin Laden’s last letter from Abbottabad
This letter is authored by “Abu ‘Abdallah” (Usama bin Ladin), addressed to “Shaykh Mahmud” (`Atiyya) and dated 26 April 2011 – a week before bin Ladin’s death. In it, Bin Ladin outlines his response to the “Arab Spring,” proposing two different strategies. The first strategy pertains to the Arab World and entails “inciting people who have not yet revolted and exhort[ing] them to rebel against the rulers (khuruj `ala al-hukkam)”; the second strategy concerns Afghanistan and it entails continuing to evoke the obligation of jihad there. The letter also makes reference to a wide variety of topics including: the scarcity of communications from Iraq, “the brothers coming from Iran,” and hostages held by “our brothers in the Islamic Maghreb” and in Somalia. The document also briefly discusses Bin Ladin’s sons, his courier, Shaykh Abu Muhammad (Ayman al-Zawahiri), and other individuals of interest.
Osama Bin Laden’s Jihad; its origin, mission and Fatwa
Osama Bin Laden instigated the terror attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. He carried on a crusade against the Americans for having troops in Saudi Arabia, and against the Zionists who occupy Al Quds (Jerusalem). Born in 1957 to a wealthy Saudi Arabian construction magnate, he joined the Afghan Moslem rebels fighting the USSR in 1979. He used his money to recruit an army from around the middle east. Throughout the 1980s, Osama Bin Laden fought the Soviet backed regime, possibly with CIA aid. However, he saw secular, powerful Washington as much an infidel as Moscow. After the war, he returned to Saudi Arabia, , but the Saudi government feared his brand of militant Islam, and stripped him of his Saudi citizenship in April 1994 for “irresponsible behavior.” In Sudan, the country’s Islamic ideologue, Hassan al-Turabi, gave him shelter.
The youths also reciting the All Mighty words of: {so when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks……..} (Muhammad; 47:19).
Those youths will not ask you (William Perry) for explanations, they will tell you singing. “There is nothing between us need to be explained, there is only killing and neck smiting.”
And they will say to you what their grand father, Haroon Ar-Rasheed, Ameer-ul-Mu’meneen, replied to your grandfather, Nagfoor, the Byzantine emperor, when he threatened the Muslims: “from Haroon Ar-Rasheed, Ameer-ul-Mu’meneen, to Nagfoor, the dog of the Romans; the answer is what you will see not what you hear”. Haroon El-Rasheed led the armies of Islam to the battle and handed Nagfoor a devastating defeat.
The youths you called cowards are competing among themselves for fighting and killing you. reciting what one of them said:
The crusader army became dust when we detonated al-Khobar with courageous youth of Islam fearing no danger, If (they are) threatened, “The tyrants will kill you,” they reply, “My death is a victory. I did not betray that king, he did betray our Qiblah. And he permitted in the holy country the most filthy sort of humans. I have made an oath by Allah, the Great, to fight whoever rejected the faith.
For more than a decade, they carried arms on their shoulders in Afghanistan and they have made vows to Allah that as long as they are alive, they will continue to carry arms against you until you are -Allah willing- expelled, defeated and humiliated, they will carry on as long as they live saying:
O William, tomorrow you will know which young man is confronting your misguided brethren! A youth fighting in smile, returning with the spear coloured red.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.".
See comments in BooMan’s fp story – Greenwald is Controversial, So What?
Indeed, the US has not been attacked again since 9/11. Terror has not been halted and is spreading across the globe as I have written. To attack the twin towers, the aim was to hit the US in its financial heart and hurt western capitalism. To get Wall Street up and running, corporate financial America came to an understanding with the Bush White House. The same for an agreement with large telecom corporations and NSA spying on US citizens. Civil liberties have been irrevocably hurt and the corporations of the global world will profit.
No, it will never be the right moment to call victory. Terror will be with us always just like crime and the mob won’t go either. Osama bin Laden created chaos, the US bonesmen made good on this opportunity. A terrorist alive or dead isn’t suffering. Those that are alive have plenty of opportunity to strike again, the masses are those that suffer the consequences.
The civil war in Syria is a direct consequence of the Stupid and the decision to invade and occupy Iraq.
Our liberty warriors have all left Iraq with no stake in that country, Afghanistan will follow and we’ll end up with a mortal enemy Pakistan and its vast group of (inter)national terror organizations.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."As this country was gearing up to destroy Iraq, it was shocking to me that so few could project what we were getting into. How much it would cost us and total disregard for what it would cost the people of Iraq. Then I had to hear that I was being an idiot for not accepting that Iraq had WMD and those were going to come and get us.
Even more shocking to me is that those that have grudgingly admitted long after the fact that they were sort of wrong on Iraq were even quicker to jump on the “let’s bomb Libya and get Gaddafi” bandwagon. Completely clueless that it was the orchestrated response to the “Arab Spring” in Tunisia and Egypt by entrenched powers in Saudi Arabia and the west. Again, was told that I was an idiot but this time by so-called liberals who now seem totally uninterested in political/economic/religious developments in all countries in that region of the world with the exception of Syria for which they demand regime change.
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"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."If ordinary Americans were less narcissistic, they would have appreciated that the primary objective of the AQ leaders was to install themselves as the leaders of their home countries, all of which would then be run according to their notions of Islam but very much like Saudi Arabia. OBL wanted Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Zawahiri would take Egypt. Etc.
Another very fine piece by Chris Floyd – Intervention Uber Alles: A Forced March to Progressive Militarism.
From one who seems to have learned, Michael Murray comment:
Would be remiss in not pointing out that the Democratic Party that Murray recalls from 1972 was unlike itself in 1968 and 1976. That’s the year the party nominated McGovern and not the happy warrior HHH nor the one that initiated our covert support for anti-communist mullahs in Afghanistan.
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These are not small numbers of Al-Qaeda fighters! During the Afghan war against the Soviet Union, some 30 to 40,000 Arabs went through the training camps. Similar numbers have been recruited since 9/11 and gone through global Islamist training camps.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.".
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."